On April 3, the Oklahoma State Board of Elections released a list of candidates for federal and state office this year.
In the Treasurer’s race, the only two candidates are a Republican and a Libertarian.
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On April 1, Laura Culp, the Woodward County, Oklahoma, Assessor, filed to run for her first full term as a Libertarian candidate. She has been the County Assessor since last year, when the previous incumbent retired and Culp was appointed to fill the vacancy. Culp is a registered Libertarian, so she will be on the November ballot as the Libertarian nominee. The only other person who filed for County Assessor is a Democrat, Tiffany Jobe.
On March 31, President Trump issued an Executive Order that authorizes creation of a federal list of U.S. residents eligible to register to vote. The Order also directs the U.S. Postal Service not to deliver absentee ballots to anyone who is not on the federal list. On April 3, twenty-two states filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Massachusetts to overturn the Order. State of California v Trump, 1:26cv-11581. Here is the Complaint. The case is assigned to U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani, an Obama appointee.
Samuel Ronan is a candidate for U.S. House from Ohio’s Fifteenth District. He is trying to be on the Republican primary ballot, but the election board kept him off because it was believed he is not a sincere member of the Republican Party. On April 2, U.S. District Court Judge Sarah Morrison refused to grant him an injunction putting him on the ballot. He has appealed to the Sixth Circuit.
Random Lengths News, a newspaper in San Pedro, California, has this article about what California Democratic Party leaders are thinking about the top-two system.